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Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959), Bust of The Honourable Wynne Godley, green patinated bronze, 52 cm high (including base)

Christie's - 20th Century British Art, 16th December 2010, lot 134

Conceived in 1956 and reputed to have been exhibited at Fairmount, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1962

The Honourable Wynne Godley was the younger son of the Third Lord Kilbracken, and the model for the head of St. Michael and Devil, Coventry Cathedral (see E. Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Oxford, 1986, no. 503)

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Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959), Bust of The Honourable Wynne Godley, green patinated bronze, 52 cm high (including base)

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Christie's - 20th Century British Art, 16th December 2010, lot 134

Conceived in 1956 and reputed to have been exhibited at Fairmount, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1962

The Honourable Wynne Godley was the younger son of the Third Lord Kilbracken, and the model for the head of St. Michael and Devil, Coventry Cathedral (see E. Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Oxford, 1986, no. 503)

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